Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-12-23
ANARCHY.
An Expedition of Anarchy by an An
erchist.
New Orleans Times Democrat.

An Expedition Of Anarchy by an An
erchist.
New Orleans Times. Democrat.
There are thousands OF people who,
since the trial and execution OF the Chi
cago anarchists, have been DESTROYS OF
knowing exactly what is that "anarchy"
for which Lingg and Fischer hurrahed,
and the establishment Of which they
claimed was necessary for the pro-
lection of the workingmen. 1t is
no easy matter to define anarchy.
Every one knows what socialism
is; that is, the socialism advo-
Gated by Lasalle and others, but anarchy
is new invention of the agitators-so
new, that each Of the anarchists seems to
to have different view Of it, and very
few of them explain it thoroughly. OF
the condemned Chicago criminals, there
may be SAID to have been three groups !;
first, that of Fielder and Schwab, who
were socialists and labor sgitators rather
than anarchists; Spies and Parsons, who
were anarchists Of the milder type, and
Lingg, Eagel and Fischer, with whom
anarchy mean dynamite and murder.
In the trial Of Most, now going on in
New York, Adolph Scherck, one OF the
leading anarchists Of New York, has de-
scribed as near as such an absurdity can
be described the meaning OF anarchy.
at is" he said, "condition OF
things where people rule themselves in
communities without the Intervention of
any state or general government, without
law, courts or officers. Common sense
alone rules; where there is no punish
ment for wrong doing except the guilty
PERSONS conscience, which in time will
set him right" He further laid down
the proposition that no anarchist could
believe in God, but must favor the idea
of a revolution OF the government by
force, if necessary.
This is about the bast and most COM
plete description OF anarchy that has
been given; and it includes probably all
the tenets of the anarchists, except their
disbelief in marriage. Their platform,
therefore, briefly put, is no God, no mar
riege, no family, no government, no law,
no punishment for crime. This is the
system which they wish to establish hy
means OF dynamite and assassination;
and it is government well described
by the word "anarchy." 1t is
needless to say that under such a
system the world would rapidly
relapse to its primevsl barbarism. The
nearest approach to true anarchists are
the Australian natives, now happily dying
away from this very system which is being
advocated in the United States by speeches
and dynamite; and which, they tell US, is
to be established by revolution. Most
people will conceive with difficulty that
such ideas can be advocated anG ad
vocated by any people short of msniscs;
and yet we have evidence in the Mormons,
in the anarchists, in numerous religious
and soci.listic sects, that there is no
scheme however mad or wild but thous-
ands of people believe in it. And We
have actually seen thousands ano. tens of
thousands of representative citizens SYM
pathizing with the condemned Chicago
anarchists, and begging for their reprieve
or release that they might preach these
doctrines of destruction and ruin. When
these sympethizers learn what anarchy
means and what it proposes, perhsps
they msy change their feelings toward it
and its apostles.